Change of Intel to AMD motherboard

[Rick Lim]

I installed the 586 kernel package from the CD's and got further into the
boot, now it gets past the initrd portion and stops/hangs at the redhat nash
portion.

I'm further along but not quite there yet.

Any more ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Fritz Whittington
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:52 AM
To: jh at 333.org; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Change of Intel to AMD motherboard

On or about 2004-09-28 07:57, Jim Higson whipped out a trusty #2 pencil 
and scribbled:

>On Monday 27 Sep 2004 08:08, Rick Lim wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi there, I have a running FC2 on a Intel 233mhz motherboard, I want to
>>move it to an AMD-K6-2/500 motherboard but it will not boot.
>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to make this run on the AMD
>>motherboard.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I've done a similar thing a few times with no problems,
>
>Binaries from the main repositories are all i386, so unless you've been 
>installing packages specially compiled for your system I doubt there'll be
a 
>problem there.
>
Almost, but not quite, true.  If you look at the files on the first 
distribution CD, you'll notice that there are two sets of kernels, smp 
and not-smp.  Each set has a 586 and a 686 version.  The appropriate one 
will be installed.

If you have a Pentium II or higher, then the 686 version will be 
installed.  If you then move that drive to a machine which only has the 
586 instruction set, it's not going to work. 

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives
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